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Native Americans

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Alaska Missions Collection

 Unprocessed Material — Legacy.810
Identifier: Legacy-810

Alaska Missions Collection

 Collection — NWYM.01.11.01
Identifier: NWYM-01-11-01
Abstract The Alaska missions collection consists of the history of the Alaskan Natives in Douglas, Kake, and Kotzebue Alaska. The collection contains correspondence between the missionaries and their sponsors, photographs of both the missionaries and Native Americans, as well as documents pertaining to the mission. It offers a glimpse into the lives of both the missionaries and the Native Americans through the documents provided. The Alaska Missions Collection shows different aspects of life from the...
Dates: 1880-1975

Chuck Hernandez Collection

 Collection — Box MS-09-08-Box.1
Identifier: MS-08-13
Scope and Contents

Three sketches depicting a Native American woman, a Native American man, and a settler of European descent.

Dates: 1960

Iroquois Pictograph

 Item — MS-11-16-Box.1
Identifier: MS-11-16
Abstract This pictograph was presented to George Fox University by Ray and Elizabeth Levesque of Point Roberts Washington on March, 30th, 2005 at Tilikum Retreat Center in Newberg, Oregon. It depicts a treaty of: "friendship and peace" between the Iroquois chief Jacob E. Thomas and George Washington in the year 1789. This treaty stated that the two parties would be friends forever and that their common Destiny on the land was one of peaceful coexistence. Since they both needed the land for each of...
Dates: 2005

Levi T. Pennington Papers

 Collection — Box MS.6
Identifier: MS-06
Summary

The collection includes the correspondence and writings of Levi T. Pennington, president of Pacific College, Newberg, Oregon, from 1911 to 1941. Consisting primarily of correspondence, the collection also includes addresses, notebooks, diaries, writings and manuscripts (both published and unpublished), scrapbooks, minutes, reports, and some photographs.

Dates: 1894-1977

Floyd H. Watson Collection on Sprague River [Oregon] Friends Church and Modoc Indians

 Series — Box MS-11-32-Box.1
Identifier: MS-08-04
Abstract

This collection includes Floyd Watson's written history detailing his involvement in Sprague River (Oregon) Friends Church and the surrounding community near Klamath Falls, Oregon. An excerpt from "The Modoc Indians: a Native American Saga" by Cheewa James and copies of photographs of the area are also included.

Dates: 1884 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1924 - 1944